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Could We Use Volcanoes To Make Electricity?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/21/2024 - 4:00am

A construction crew member is shown March 6, 2007 working near well #6 at Puna Geothermal Venture, in Puna, Hawaii. Hawaii seems like a perfect candidate for energy independence because its Pacific gusts, ample sunlight and a continuously erupting volcano can be used to make natural electricity.
(Tim Wright / AP Photo)

Turning red-hot lava from an active volcano into electricity would be dangerous and unreliable. Volcanoes don’t erupt on predictable schedules, and lava cools too quickly. But many countries, including the U.S., have found ways to tap volcanic heat to make electricity.

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Nebraska Treasurer Establishes Crowdfunding Website As Savings Program For People With Disabilities

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/21/2024 - 3:00am

Josh Swanson, Josh Whitfield, Kathy Rohwedder and Whitfield’s service dog, Albert Noah Pooper, from left, joined a news conference announcing a crowdfunding website for Nebraskans to donate to accounts for people with disabilities, Aug. 14, 2024.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — A new crowdfunding website led by the Nebraska State Treasurer’s Office is seeking to help Nebraskans with disabilities live a full, involved life in their community.

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The Trash In Mali's Capital Is Piling Up. Donkey Carts Are Coming To Help

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/21/2024 - 2:00am

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — When handling the garbage of a city of over 3 million people and equipped with little more than a face mask and gloves, it helps to have a sense of humor. Yacouba Diallo decided to name the two donkeys that pull his cart after his cousins, Keita and Kanté.

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Conservatives Have Nicknamed Tim Walz ‘Tampon Tim’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 8:00am

Originally published by The 19th

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Republicans have a new nickname for Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz: “Tampon Tim.”

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Welcome To Nebraska The Home Of Vice Presidents

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 7:00am

Welcome to Nebraska the home of Vice Presidents.

Tim Walz joins Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney as the latest vice presidential candidate to be born in the Good Life State. And while it’s true all of them left the state before they got the gig, that doesn’t stop a lot of Nebraskans from having a little bit of hometown pride in what he’s accomplished.

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More Than 1 Million Veterans Receiving Benefits Via PACT Act Ahead Of Anniversary

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 6:00am

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday celebrated the number of veterans enrolled in VA health care and benefits as part of a law he signed nearly two years ago, though he said more work must be done for troops who were stationed at a base in Uzbekistan in the early 2000s.

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How Horses At The Spirit Horse Ranch Help Maui Wildfire Survivors Process Their Grief

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 5:00am

KANAIO, Hawaii (AP) — Fear. Anxiety. Anger. Depression. Overwhelmed.

Janice Dapitan began her second counseling session by writing those words on a whiteboard, reflecting what she felt in that moment. The day fire destroyed her hometown of Lahaina — and the struggles that have followed for nearly a year — still haunted her.

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A Chess Club For Kids Thrives In A Congo Refugee Camp. It’s About More Than The Game

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 4:00am

Children play chess at 'The Soga Chess Club' of the internally displaced persons camp in Kanyaruchinya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, July 29, 2024.
(Moses Sawasawa / AP Photo)

KANYARUCHINYA, Congo (AP) — Children sit on the dirt, their clothes ragged and torn, their shoes punctured with holes, but their eyes bright and fixed on what's playing out in front of them.

In a corner of a refugee camp in conflict-wracked eastern Congo, about a dozen chess games are going, each one with its own fascinated audience.

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Veterans Club In NE’s Oldest Prison Is Saluted At Vietnam Vet Reunion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 3:00am

Jaime Obrecht (left) and Roy Schoen are long-time volunteers with the veterans club at the Nebraska State Penitentiary and were co-chairs of the 39th annual Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunion this weekend in Lincoln.
(Paul Hammel / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Every year, a wreath is placed on the grave of Beryl Zich.

It has been a solemn tradition since her death in 2005, a way to pay tribute to her love and dedication for her son, Larry, a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, who was listed as missing in action until his remains were identified in 2022.

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A Six-String Made From Memorial Stadium? Nebraska Guitar Maker Gives New Life To Historic Timber.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/07/2024 - 7:00am

Phil Whitmarsh made this electric bass from decking salvaged from the USS Texas. The patina of the raw wood, primer, sealer and the gray topcoat paint of the ship’s deck are all visible on the instrument’s body.
(Flatwater Free Press)

Phil Whitmarsh starts a lot of conversations with an offbeat question: Have you ever played a 500-year-old guitar?

Eventually, he’ll hand you Mary Kate. The instrument resembles a Fender Telecaster, the six-string synonymous with Americana twang and favored by artists like Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards.